Leslie's abilities were quickly noticed by the Principal of the University who arranged a scholarship to enable Leslie to continue his studies.

After Leslie's election the Edinburgh moderates, determined to oust Leslie, took the affair to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, its highest forum, which decided in May 1805 by the narrow majority of 96 to 84 that the affair be dropped and Leslie be left undeposed from his mathematics chair.

Leslie, who owned a townhouse in Edinburgh with fine library and beautiful paintings, purchased in addition an estate at Coates which is east of Largo, set back from the Fife coast but with a fine view over the Firth of Forth.

During the sentencing Robert Morvillo, Stewart's lead trial attorney, asked that if Stewart eventually does go to prison, she be sent to a federal facility in Danbury, Conn. Judge Cedarbaum said she would refer the matter to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The Stewart case is one of a number of criminal indictments that prosecutors have brought against corporate executives in recent years.

As for Stewart, "the judge probably felt that, given the loss of status and the impact on her business, that this punishment was fair and just," said Stanley Twardy Jr., a former Connecticut U.S. attorney.

ROBERT TANNAHILL, according to the memorandum note-book of his father and register of baptisms for the Burgh Parish of Paisley, was the fifth child and fourth son of his parents, and was born between the hours of nine and ten o'clock in the morning of June 3rd, 1774.

Robert was sent to school when about six years of age, and he continued for several years to receive the usual instruction taught in English schools to the children of parents moving in their position.

Robert Tannahill being brought up with his father and two elder brothers, who were all weavers before him, and the weaving shop and dwelling house being a but and ben, he would occasionally try his hand at the shuttle, and very naturally and early took to the weaving.

Henry Stewart was born about the year 1495, the second son of Andrew, Lord Avandale and Margaret the daughter of John, the second Lord Kennedy of Blairquhan.

Henry married first Lady Leslie and had a child, John Stewart, who was the Master of Methven, and had received a pardon for "holding heretical opinions".

Charters were given to Lord Methven and Jonet Stewart his wife, lands of Gorthy, June 5th, 1545, to him and his wife, of the Lordship of Methven, February 18, 1547-48, and to him, Lady Janet Stewart and Henry his son, of the same lordship and the lands of Gorthy, October 10, 1551.

Stewart and his cohorts were smart enough to know that if their live performances had won them such ardent fans, any recording they created should attempt to duplicate that same feel rather than mask it with an over-thought, overdubbed studio sheen.

In Stewart's opinion, "That was kind of our start as professional, hard-working musicians, and we were discovering that this was work, you had to be disciplined and patient, and just play through this stuff and let the soloist go." For Stewart, playing with these living legends cemented his musical destiny.

Stewart stayed with the band for two years, touring up and down the West coast, until he finally grew disenchanted with the changing musical direction of the group and left in 1979.

Beginning in 1946, Stewart became interested in social physics, a field inaugurated by the astronomer Edmund Halley in 1693 which demonstrates the use of physical laws in the realm of the social sciences.

At least one of them is known to have died of tuberculosis; the compelling conclusion is that all four contracted the disease as children in their parents’ household and died of its effects in early adulthood.

Ella Stewart, born in 1879, was the eighth child of James Lewers Stewart and Mary Louise Chamblin.

In a time when rockers are finally middle-aged enough to fulfill the dire prophecy that they'd be better off with their parents' music, Stewart once again does it right.

Most important, Rod Stewart doesn't "interpret" these songs--doesn't "illuminate the nuances of the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart or Hoagy Carmichael." Not the emotional nuances, always tricky business, nor the musical nuances.

From Dylan to Hendrix to "Maggie May" to Elton John, Stewart was long a connoisseur of this mainstream, and one might argue that his songbooks are a reproach to its current desiccation.

Robert Stack, 84, a flinty film actor who became an icon of law-and-order television programs such as "The Untouchables" and "Unsolved Mysteries," was found dead Wednesday at his Los Angeles-area home.

He showed dramatic promise as the young and very blond Nazi sympathizer in "The Mortal Storm" (1940) with James Stewart and comic flair as the Polish flier who woos married Carole Lombard in "To Be or Not to Be" (1942).

Similarly to other rugged 1950s leading men such as Leslie Nielsen and Lloyd Bridges who later lampooned their screen images, Stack appeared in such films as "Airplane!" (1980) and "Caddyshack II" (1988).

www.tedstrong.com /robert-stack.shtml (594 words)

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He wanted to rectify this by teaching mathematics courses specially tailored for his physics students, but the University of Edinburgh senate prevented him from giving such courses since these topics were deemed the responsibility of the professor of mathematics.

Leslie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1807, a Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1820, and was knighted in 1832.

He was the fifth son of Sir Patrick Leslie of Pitcairly, Commendator of Lindores by his wife, Jean, daughter of RobertStewart, Earl of Orkney.

Like Alexander Leslie and others of his countrymen who were engaged in military services on the Continent, he returned home when hostilities were impending between the English Court and his countrymen, and was appointed Major-General of the forces which the Committee of Estates sent to the assistance of the English Parliament in January, 1644.

In this emergency, David Leslie was recalled with the Scottish cavalry from the siege of Hereford to the assistance of the Estates, and, by a rapid and skilful movement, he surprised and defeated Montrose at Philiphaugh, near Selkirk, 12th September, 1645.

The archive documents the theatrical and operatic work of Robert Wilson, who has been widely heralded over the last 30 years as one of the most significant and influential creative forces staging productions throughout the world.

Patrick Hoffman, Director of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT), has remarked, “It is entirely appropriate that the Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection become a part of the rich theater heritage preserved by TOFT and housed here at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center.

An essential resource for everyone with an interest in the performing arts -- whether professional or amateur -- the Library is known particularly for its prodigious collections of non-book materials such as historic recordings, videotapes, autograph manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, stage designs, press clippings, programs, posters, and photographs.

www.nypl.org /press/2003/robertwilson.cfm (1098 words)

Prominent Men - History of Lake County - Online Historical Archives - HMCA,Inc.(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)

Their children are: Vivien Louise, LeslieStewart and Mabel Elizabeth.

Born in Canton, Massachusetts, October 4, 1838; son of Robert and Elizabeth (Kennedy) Pollock; came with parents to Illinois in 1839, and located two miles north of Millburn.

James Pollock was raised on the home farm, where he remained until forty years of age, since which time he has been engaged in his present business.

THE STEWART-FAMILY.NET is a site from the Stewarts of Bisbee, Arizona (a small copper mining town in the southeast corner of Arizona) where Mary Leota Studley and James Sinclair Stewart were married and continued the Stewart Family Tradition.

This site and its information is primarily the works of RobertLeslieStewart, the third oldest child of Mary Leota and James Sinclair Stewart.

The format and preparation of this site and its genealogical content are presented by Richard Allen Stewart, the fourth child of RobertLeslieStewart and Virginia May Hannon-Stewart.

As a form of judicial execution in England, Hanging is thought to date from the Saxon period, circa AD 400.

Records of the names of British hangmen begin with Thomas de Warblynton in the 1360s; complete Records extend from the 1500s to the last hangmen, RobertLeslieStewart and Harry Allen, who conducted the last British executions in 1964.

Early methods of Hanging simply involved a hangman's noose on a rope placed around the victim's neck, with the loose end thrown over or tied to a tree branch; the hangman then drew up the criminal, who slowly strangled.

Robert Benchley & The Knights of the Algonquin reviewed by Gordon Ernst, Director, Robert Benchley Society and author of Robert Benchley: An Annotated Bibliography -- This collection contains the following Benchley shorts:

The two shorts from 1928 are interesting for their historical significance (and for preserving two of Benchley's best known routines), but the print for The Treasurer's Report has specks of lint in it which obscure the picture for at least half of its 10 minute running time.

Robert Benchley, Joyce Compton, John Butler, Eddie Acuff, Diane Cock

www.robertbenchley.org /sob/shorts.htm (735 words)

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